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nbc's tracie potts from washington joins us with more. tracie, good morning. >> reporter: hi, lynn, good morning. we know they sat down together, but it looks like little if any progress was made on this stalemate. republicans accusing president obama of not having a specific, of the major cuts needed to be made to bring down this deficit. they are accusing him of playing politics with medicare. the white house said medicare does not need to be ended to save money. republicans say they aren't ending it, they are trying to save it. one thing they agree on, they want to wrap up these negotiations within the next month. in fact, speaker boehner said he's happy to personally negotiate with the president. vice president biden is now overseeing those negotiations. and who is going to deal with all of this after 2012, who is going to be the next president? the republicans have one more person on their ticket. after today mitt romney is making his formal announcement at a farm in new hampshire later today. lynn. >> tracie potts there for us in wa
nbc's tracie potts from washington joins us with more. tracie, good morning. >> reporter: hi, lynn, good morning. we know they sat down together, but it looks like little if any progress was made on this stalemate. republicans accusing president obama of not having a specific, of the major cuts needed to be made to bring down this deficit. they are accusing him of playing politics with medicare. the white house said medicare does not need to be ended to save money. republicans say they...
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big win for nbc. your "first look" at this morning's business headlines is straight ahead. >>> coming up, tiger looks away from golf and game four in the nba comes down to the final shot. wÑ >>> welcome back to "first look." here are some of the top stories making news this morning -- arizona's massive wildfire has chased thousands from their homes. burned ten structures and 486 square miles. no one has been injured by the blaze, which was captured by a nasa satellite. along with another fire-burning in the state. >>> loud explosions have been rocking tripoli. parts of libyan ruler mohammad gadhafi's compound. >>> mother nature put on quite a show in canada yesterday. lightning lit up the skies of toronto. striking the cn tower in the downtown area. >>> one missouri ice cream shop is getting bugged for serving a nontraditional ice cream flavor. they have been told to stop cicada ice cream flavor. the shop said that the first batch of the cold treat was sold out within hours. that's just plain nasty.
big win for nbc. your "first look" at this morning's business headlines is straight ahead. >>> coming up, tiger looks away from golf and game four in the nba comes down to the final shot. wÑ >>> welcome back to "first look." here are some of the top stories making news this morning -- arizona's massive wildfire has chased thousands from their homes. burned ten structures and 486 square miles. no one has been injured by the blaze, which was captured by a...
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now for a look at your national weather, nbc's bill karins. clint eastwood will do that film. >> it's coming out over the summer. are you ready for the heat? >> oh, yeah, bring it on. >> oh, yeah, i've been complaining all winter about being cold. >> when it's 98 degrees on thursday, you're not going to complain? >> we'll see. >> everyone has the right to explain, it's just too early for this. unbelievable, two days in a row at the houston airport, we had 105 degrees. that's like desert-type heat. we actually got lucky, we actually had showers later on in the day to try to cool it off. the heat expanded yesterday. it was even 97 in minneapolis. if this was july or august, you say, we get those hot days like this be but this is still the beginning of june. yesterday was 88 in d.c. today, you should be near 90. then we're going up into the upper 90s in d.c. it appears wednesday and thursday. now, the heat ridge is centered over the top of kentucky. the hotter side is where the air is a little dryer. that's west texas, oklahoma and up through kan
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nbc's tracie potts joins us with the latest on this. tracie, good morning to you. >> reporter: good morning, lynn. the last time we saw rick santorum on a bol lot, it was in pennsylvania. that senate race he lost by 18 points. this time he is hoping to make a comeback. former pennsylvania senator rick santorum is expected to stand in front of a courthouse today not far from the coal mines where his grandfather worked and announce he is running for president. then he is headed straight to iowa and new hampshire. santorum joins tim pawlenty, mitt romney, and others who have declared. still in the wind, sarah palin. >> what president palin would do is cut the federal budget. >> reporter: she's talking like a candidate crisscrossing the country on a bus, but says she's still 50-50 in deciding whether they'll actually run. the biggest issue these candidates face is the economy. >> five months of this new congress, we haven't seen a jobs agenda come forth. >> reporter: friday's news that only 54,000 jobs were created last month, way below exp
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nbc's kristen welker is at the white house. kristen, how does the white house make the tough economic numbers work? we heard from david axelrod there. >> reporter: well, richard, one thing you're not going to hear is a mission accomplished speech. we expect the president to acknowledge that the economy is in a tough spot right now, to try to comfort americans. he will also likely reiterate one of the themes that we have heard from this administration which is that recovery takes time. he'll talk about the fact that 2 million jobs have been added over the past 15 months, but there is still a long way to go towards progress and towards t getting americans feeling like they're in a stable spot. on friday, he was touting one of the things he feels worked in the economy, namely the auto bailout. he was in toledo, ohio, at a chrysler plant there, saying the auto bailout has worked. it saved hundreds of thousands of jobs. the auto industry is productive once again. but having said all of this, republicans have wasted no time seizing o
nbc's kristen welker is at the white house. kristen, how does the white house make the tough economic numbers work? we heard from david axelrod there. >> reporter: well, richard, one thing you're not going to hear is a mission accomplished speech. we expect the president to acknowledge that the economy is in a tough spot right now, to try to comfort americans. he will also likely reiterate one of the themes that we have heard from this administration which is that recovery takes time....
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. >> nbc's luke russert covers capitol hill and interviewed anthony weiner last week. politico was at the congressional congressman's news conference in new york. welcome both to you. maggie, first to you. let's talk about the news conference, itself. describe the room and what went on when andrew brightbart took the podium. >> he took the podium in fairness at request of reporters who wanted him to be able to address everyone in unison and freely. he was surrounded by cameras after a few of us noticed him. there was really an astonishing warmup act for anthony weiner who came in and gave what was also an amazing performance. i don't mean that critically. he was very genuine in his tears and he was sorry. it was quite something to see someone stand there and take questions this way. that was not something eliot spitzer did. >> in fact, i should point out eliot spitzer did resign. >> yes. >> and the fact is that weiner is saying he's going to fight and he won't quit. >> that's right. >> so you've covered him a long time, since he was a member of council. you've seen him
. >> nbc's luke russert covers capitol hill and interviewed anthony weiner last week. politico was at the congressional congressman's news conference in new york. welcome both to you. maggie, first to you. let's talk about the news conference, itself. describe the room and what went on when andrew brightbart took the podium. >> he took the podium in fairness at request of reporters who wanted him to be able to address everyone in unison and freely. he was surrounded by cameras after...
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. >> you believe that fox news is exactly the ideaological equivalent-- of nbc news. >> i think we're the counterweight. >> you believe that -- >> i think they have a liberal agenda and we tell the other side of the story. >> the other side of the story. we don't-- we don't tell both sides of the story. we tell one side. >> the other side, the one we perceive is never told. because as you know-- (applause) >> news only comes in two sides. (laughter) >> jon: and if the conservative side isn't being told, what's being told must be liberal. fox news isn't fair and balanced, it's balancing the system, man. don't you get it! the system's unfair and unbalanced! to balance the system, fox has to be the purist form of right wing resin because of how-- because of how heavy left wing america is. hollywood, comedians, every single news organization, the internet, fact, history, science, it's all just left wing bull [bleep], man! each one of those things designed purely to shut down conservatives. but don't worry, fox isn't going to let that happen. it's fox unbalanced? yeah. seriously like their
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nbc's kristin welker joins me live from the white house. what are we hear being that meeting? anything yet? >> reporter: well, we are getting some nuggets out of that meeting. president obama, vice president biden just wrapped up a two-hour meeting with their national security team. it included secretary of state clinton, chief of staff daley, and they were actually briefed by video conference by secretary of defense bob gates about the situation in afghanistan. as you mentioned, the president trying to determine exactly how many troops should be withdrawn, when that should begin, and, as you know, there's been a lot of debate about that. now, when asked when that would begin and what the troops withdrawal would look like, here is press secretary jay carney had to say just a short while ago. >> the president has yet to make a decision on the numbers. we had always said it would be real. there were skep tireptices who that the july 2011 date for a drawdown was not real. it will begin then. the president is going make his decision as he has said all along based on conditions on
nbc's kristin welker joins me live from the white house. what are we hear being that meeting? anything yet? >> reporter: well, we are getting some nuggets out of that meeting. president obama, vice president biden just wrapped up a two-hour meeting with their national security team. it included secretary of state clinton, chief of staff daley, and they were actually briefed by video conference by secretary of defense bob gates about the situation in afghanistan. as you mentioned, the...
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nbc's mara schiavo-campo is here with more. good morning. >> good morning. >> why is new york so significant? this is the sixth state. >> the sixth and the largest. and it's estimated it's going to double the eligible population of same-sex couples that can get married. but it also has a cultural significance. new york is a financial and media center of the world. and so advocates are really hoping this has a much larger cultural impact and that it could re-ignite this movement. >> speaking to that, 41 states nationwide have banned same-sex marriage. >> absolutely. >> do we see what's happening in new york reinvigorating the demand to have that perhaps overturned? >> that puts it in a little bit of perspective. six states have legalized but 41 states are specifically banning it. when you look at the polls you see the numbers of those supporting same-sex marriage nationwide increasing and those opposing it decreasing. and for the first time those opposing gay marriage are less than 50%. for the first time in the country those op
nbc's mara schiavo-campo is here with more. good morning. >> good morning. >> why is new york so significant? this is the sixth state. >> the sixth and the largest. and it's estimated it's going to double the eligible population of same-sex couples that can get married. but it also has a cultural significance. new york is a financial and media center of the world. and so advocates are really hoping this has a much larger cultural impact and that it could re-ignite this...
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michael isikoff is on the show, nbc news investigative correspondent, beth in the business. and former independent counsel also served as chief counsel of the senate rules committee. gentlemen, thank you for joining us. let's go over these stories that seem to be shall as we say in journalism, created lechs for this story. first of all this whole question of multiple women discussed now, coming out. mike isikoff is this going to be one of those stories where you just get more and more information as the days go on, you just have to keep reporting it? is that his biggest problem? >> sure, first of all. he said a half a dozen in the press conference. now, remember, there's going to be an electronic trail of all his messages. now that we have that ethics committee investigation, the committee is going to be doubt tu-bound, let's see the elect tropic trail, twitter messages, facebook messages and hold that up against what he said in the press conference yesterday. the line that left out of the press conference is he said, "in some cases, i initiated them." now, if he is initiati
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and in the run up about being free of the corporate constraints of working for an organization like nbc. did he seem to you to be liberated on this new network? >> i didn't see off in any significant rhetorical way. and he assault weapon the last three months, you know, being asked this question. what was it that msnbc management did that you were trying to get out from under? and he had three months to give an answer and i never thought he particularly gave a very helpful answer. you know, in the show you saw the same guests, jonathan turley, john dean, the m & m brothers, marcos moore. so going forward, my question is now that you've promoted yourself as being, you know, free from the man, what does that mean? what exactly are you going to be doing with this show that you weren't doing for that show? but i should say for the purposes of this first week, maybe this first month, it was absolutely vital that okeith olbermann get his audience moved over to current. and with 175,000 viewers in the young adult demographic, twice what cnn was doing in that hour, by the way, howie. i think he
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nbc's stephanie goes sex live for must tripoli. real ramping up, haven't seen a lot happen in daylight before, had we? >> no, we haven't. this is a bit unusual. having said that, not a discern aable pattern by nato. we knee nato sentence fig its operation here, chuck. we are getting a taste of that over the last few hours. we have been hearing air strikes in bursts of two and three, some of them quite loutd, even shaking our hotel here. some in the direction of the gadhafi compound, which has been hit a number of times. our hote. some in the direction of the gadhafi compound, which has been hit a number of times. the minister of information tell us that libyan tv was hit overnight two people killed, dozens injured, although we haven't been take town see that site. the libyan government is eager to show us that civilians have been dying or injured in these attacks and civilian targets have been hit but because of that eagerness in the last couple of days [ inaudible ] suspect things including what they said was a injured little girl
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. >> this is "nbc news lightly news" with tom brokaw. reporting tonight from nbc news headquarters in new york. >> good evening. no one wanted this presidential campaign to get sidetracked by stories of an extramarital afar, but tonight that's exactly what's happened as a result of allegations against arkansas governor bill clinton. widely regarded to be the leading democratic candidate until last week. the issue is, who's lying? clinton or the woman who today made her charges public? andrea mitchell is covering the story for us tonight. >> tom, bill clinton had hoped that his appearance on "60 minutes" last night would end further questions about his personal life. that was wishful thinking. at an elementary school in jackson, mississippi, this morning it was a first question a reporter asked. >> i'm done with this. i've said i should say. >> last night. >> i have acknowledged wrong doing. i have acknowledged causing pain in my marriage. i have said things to you tonight and to the american people from the beginning that no american pol
. >> this is "nbc news lightly news" with tom brokaw. reporting tonight from nbc news headquarters in new york. >> good evening. no one wanted this presidential campaign to get sidetracked by stories of an extramarital afar, but tonight that's exactly what's happened as a result of allegations against arkansas governor bill clinton. widely regarded to be the leading democratic candidate until last week. the issue is, who's lying? clinton or the woman who today made her...
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. >> michael on this show now on nbc national correspondent and best in the business. joe is former independent council an former prosecutor serving as chief council to the senate rules committee. thank you for joining us. let's go over these stories that seem to be as we say, it created legs for this story. first of all the question of multiple women discussed now coming out. mike, is this going to be one of those stories where you get more and more information where days come on. you have to keep reporting it? is that the biggest problem? >> sure. first of all he said a half dozen in the press conference. remember, there is an electronic trail of all his messages. that we have the ethics committee investigation. the committee will be -- is going to be duty-bound to like let's see the electronic trail. let's see all of your twitter messages, all of your facebook messages and they are going to hold that up against what he said in the press conference yesterday. he said in some cases initiated them. now if he is initiating these exchanges, including sending lewd photos
. >> michael on this show now on nbc national correspondent and best in the business. joe is former independent council an former prosecutor serving as chief council to the senate rules committee. thank you for joining us. let's go over these stories that seem to be as we say, it created legs for this story. first of all the question of multiple women discussed now coming out. mike, is this going to be one of those stories where you get more and more information where days come on. you...
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first, this is "today" on nbc! >>> it is a pleasure, and we mean that, to welcome back our good friend, len berman. he's here to catch us up on the wild and wacky moments from the world of sports. lenny, welcome back. >> i can't go on. you guys are too kind. all right. well, the last couple of months feature the kentucky derby, the dallas mavericks and the boston bruins. but what were truly the top sports stories? let's go spanning the world. ♪ >> unbelievable! >> all right. on your mark, get set. in south carolina high school soccer. that's a goal. play ball! everybody flipping out. as cabrera for cleveland, paul konerko for chicago. got him. pitcher ross for texas. ditto. the guy on the left at indianapolis. look out. in italy, the penalty kick goes off the crossbar. the goalie celebrates. but look at the ball. bounce, bounce. that's a goal. just another case of premature exhilaration. >> oh! >> in france. a motorcycle mishap. ♪ here we go 'round the mulberry bush ♪ ♪ this goes on for a while. speaking of
first, this is "today" on nbc! >>> it is a pleasure, and we mean that, to welcome back our good friend, len berman. he's here to catch us up on the wild and wacky moments from the world of sports. lenny, welcome back. >> i can't go on. you guys are too kind. all right. well, the last couple of months feature the kentucky derby, the dallas mavericks and the boston bruins. but what were truly the top sports stories? let's go spanning the world. ♪ >> unbelievable!...
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now nbc news political analyst and chuck todd, nbc political director and host of "the daily rundown." thanks to both of you. first of all, to you, chuck todd, at the white house, how is this the latest economic numbers, how is this changing their game plan going into 2012? >> well, as you can see, they're starting to mess around a little bit with how they talk about the economy. you saw stan greenburg, the clinton pollster from the '90s, apparently he and david axelrod got a bit of a debate, according to "the wall street journal" report and an interview he did with the journal, and they talked about how to message this economy and the reality being you have stan greenburg and james carville saying, look, this economy is not going to be looking like a fully recovered economy come 2012. and that this white house and the president needs to be talking more in the feel your pain language that bill clinton was so good at in the early '90s when he was running the first time, and so you saw a little bit -- the president himself, on friday, you know, he used to use that car ditch analogy. we'
now nbc news political analyst and chuck todd, nbc political director and host of "the daily rundown." thanks to both of you. first of all, to you, chuck todd, at the white house, how is this the latest economic numbers, how is this changing their game plan going into 2012? >> well, as you can see, they're starting to mess around a little bit with how they talk about the economy. you saw stan greenburg, the clinton pollster from the '90s, apparently he and david axelrod got a...
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>> well, i'd like nbc. >> i am a sports junkie. espn. >> fox news, of course. >> i will give a shout out to the history channel. >> i will stop with where jeff started with c-span. i cannot really say. any premium channel. i love watching premiums. >> what a good panel with the luminaries, figuring out a way to move forward and be all things to all people. thank you, guys. excellent. thank you so much. enjoy the rest of the cable show. ♪ >> c-span has launched a new easy to navigate website for politics on the 2012 race, with news from the campaign trail, biography information, twitter feeds and facebook updates and links to c-span media partners in the early primary caucus states. visit us at c-span.org /campaign2012. >> next weekend, booktv looks at savannah, ga., and on c-span2, and novelists and short story writer, a conversation with the sister of jim williams, a central character in "midnight in the garden of good and evil." also, on american history tb on c-span3, travel to the founding days of savannah as we visit a plant
>> well, i'd like nbc. >> i am a sports junkie. espn. >> fox news, of course. >> i will give a shout out to the history channel. >> i will stop with where jeff started with c-span. i cannot really say. any premium channel. i love watching premiums. >> what a good panel with the luminaries, figuring out a way to move forward and be all things to all people. thank you, guys. excellent. thank you so much. enjoy the rest of the cable show. ♪ >> c-span has...
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that means that nbc bay area news will be on at 4:00 p.m. "nbc nightly news" will start at 4:30. don't forget you can also get yo local news on california nonstop, my favorite show with brent cannon at 7:00 p.m. that's on comcast channel 186. esday today's voice and our second round of blind auditions. hoda chose one singer for her team and i still have all three slots open for mine. >> we're going to listen-only to the auditions with our backs turned to the singers. sar sarah? >> so we have got -- what are you doing kathie lee? you haven't been released. this is our second week of three. at the end you have to have a team of three. >> you got to start picking. >> get on it. >> i have to be moved by the voice. >> turn around. and we are ready for contestant number one. ♪ >> what is your name? >> that was awesome. >> where are you from? >> you rock. >> gorgeous voice. >> i felt it. you know, sometimes i don't know what it is. but when you feel something in the beginning. i felt it like right here. >> two notes, you had turned. >> come hug me. >> oh dear. >> there is a hug fest g
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let's bring in nbc's luke russert following the latest developments from capitol hill. what is the democratic take on the congressman there today? >> reporter: well, it has been a tough day for anthony weiner. and although he had some allies within his caucus talk to him privately, i've heard, publicly he's gotten nothing from democrats except they feel sorry for his family, they feel sorry he put himself in this moral predicamen predicament. yesterday, nancy pelosi called upon the house ethics committee to investigate congressman weiner and how much he knew about these types of elicit electronic affairs, if you will, and whether he used his congressional office in any way to promote them. that's going to be quite the investigation. it will occur here over the next few months if congressman weiner decides to stay in office. he also elicited some support from steve israel who called on him to be remorseful and said, you know what, this is not the best course of action. so democrats are not necessarily, if you will, very thrilled with anthony weiner now. he's distracted t
let's bring in nbc's luke russert following the latest developments from capitol hill. what is the democratic take on the congressman there today? >> reporter: well, it has been a tough day for anthony weiner. and although he had some allies within his caucus talk to him privately, i've heard, publicly he's gotten nothing from democrats except they feel sorry for his family, they feel sorry he put himself in this moral predicamen predicament. yesterday, nancy pelosi called upon the house...
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santa barbara, comcast made a very significant commitment in this regard in connection with the comcast nbc transaction. and they're energetically putting it in place. even with that we need to step this up a few notches, and i'm calling on the cable industry, other industries in the broadband economy to step up and help close the broadband gap. it's a big deal. i'm looking forward to working on it with you and everyone in the broadband economy, all stakeholders. at the f.c.c. i'm going to work with my fellow commissioners to launch a new task force that's going to focus attention on what can be done through public-private partnerships and other creative ideas. but i just don't think we can be satisfied with the pace of improvement on broadband adoption. we went from 65% to 67% in the last year. it's just not good enough. we have to step it up. >> mr. chairman, you can count on the cable industry to be your partner in that effort. we understand the importance of it. i encourage the audience to see the adoption event we're doing at the park later today. the chairman, i think, plans on being
santa barbara, comcast made a very significant commitment in this regard in connection with the comcast nbc transaction. and they're energetically putting it in place. even with that we need to step this up a few notches, and i'm calling on the cable industry, other industries in the broadband economy to step up and help close the broadband gap. it's a big deal. i'm looking forward to working on it with you and everyone in the broadband economy, all stakeholders. at the f.c.c. i'm going to work...